Oil
/quotes/zigman/2203144CLM2 retreated 91 cents, or 1%, to end at $91.66 a barrel. Crude futures gave back nearly all of the previous session’s gains on fears about the euro zone after growth expectations there were lowered and on signs of some progress with Iran.

The U.S. dollar rose, rising against the euro but notching a bigger advance against the Japanese yen
/quotes/zigman/4868099/sampledUSDJPY after Japan’s credit rating was downgrade and before the Bank of Japan’s policy meeting. The greenback extended gains against the euro late in the session following comments from Greece’s former prime minister that the economic impact for Greece of leaving the euro zone would be very high, according to Dow Jones Newswires.

The dollar index
/quotes/zigman/1652083DXY, which tracks the greenback against a basket of six major currencies, rose to 81.670 – its highest since January and compared with 80.970 late Monday.

Treasury prices pared losses at the end of the day but Treasury yields, which move inversely to prices, still ended up from their recently-set record lows.

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